It could be one of the biggest private computing infrastructure projects in history — or a disaster.

In his newly built palace near Tokyo, lined by stone statues of Roman emperors and surrounded by an 18-hole golf course, Masayoshi Son was stewing. After declaring for years the imminent arrival of the artificial-intelligence revolution,

Liang Wenfeng hires young people and bookworms for his engineering team. He says: "Experience is not that important."

Two years ago, global tech investor Masayoshi Son was at a low point. The SoftBank Group CEO had missed out on the generative artificial revolution taking place, even after flooding the tech market with over $130 billion of investment into startups and other companies.

One of the more revealing things to come out of the chaos was the response to DeepSeek from Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT. In a thread on X, Altman called the model “impressive” and said that it was “legit invigorating” to have a competitor:

Open AI CEO Sam Altman-backed Startup is investing in world's first nuclear fusion based power plant to solve the energy crisis in United States.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that it was "invigorating" to have new competition in the AI industry with DeepSeek's emergence.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's decision to join President Trump's "Stargate" AI initiative marks a stark reversal for the tech CEO, who previously was a vocal critic of Trump.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman downplayed the significance of a new artificial intelligence (AI) model released by Chinese startup DeepSeek on Thursday, saying it did a “couple of nice things” but has been

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a technological milestone on Friday, revealing the deployment of NVIDIA Corp.'s first full 8-rack GB200 NVL72 system on Microsoft Corp.'s Azure platform, marking a major advancement in the companies' strategic partnership.

Microsoft-backed OpenAI's chief Sam Altman is planning to visit India next week, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said, in what could be his first visit in two years at a time when the company faces legal challenges in the country.

Altman and Musk were OpenAI’s founding co-chairs in 2015, but their relationship has devolved into name-calling and lawsuits.